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Comment by layer8

9 hours ago

The three-body problem only states the problem to solve, it doesn’t itself state anything about the existence or non-existence of solutions. It has been proven that there is no general closed-form solution. And there are obvious solutions for trivial special cases, such as three equal masses in an equilateral triangle rotating around each other.

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem#Solutions